Social media 70's

These days we are both HAM Radio operators and have communicated around the world with 12 volts and a wire strung between a couple trees. For FREE.

How the hell did I remember it like that?!

We had the 70' Moonraker tower and e'er' thang.

We had one of those too!

Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck.....we about to go hunting bear!

Actually it was a rather forgettable movie with Kris Kristopherson...save for the fact that the bridge they blew up was not too far from where I once lived

Heaven's Gate was forgettable, but I found Convoy rather entertaining.

Your Honor,.... I rest my case....

Feel...dizzy...

Actually watching 39 steps right now

:D hope you enjoy it

2nd time through so I catch things I missed. Just finished the 1936 version of "the man who knew too much" with Peter Laurie.

It's fun to watch good older and get away from the whiz bang artless bleh. I need to go to the library and see what they've got dvdwise.

At least you guys didn't do the worst stuff. Someone was driving down our street late one night and keyed up to some ludicrous voltage and my AM/FM radio *that was off* picked it up and blasted out what he was saying at an impossibly loud volume. I didn't sleep very well that night. :(

I've herd of that happening. You should have tracked him down and removed his radio with a ball peen hammer!
And he was broadcasting with normal voltage, otherwise the whole vehicle would have shorted out. He was most likeky using a linear amplifier to increase the WATTAGE. Mobile Citizen Band radios are set to broadcast at 4 Watts maximum. With an linear amp, Mr. Jerk was probably pumping out 50W, although 100W-250W is not unheard of, with the right antenna.

I wish. I was in highschool, I can't remember which year. All I remember is I could hear the bastard through my AM/FM radio from about a mile away as he was going like 100mph down the road, yelling at people like a bastard. Like 10pm or some crap. I don't like tons of rules, but a few are in place for a reason. Freaking psychopath.

Oh no. I'm "Commenting a lot." fk me for trying to talk to my buddies on here. Oh well. I guess we'll talk more about it when I'm ready to get squelched again for having a normal conversation with ya'll. Peace, and great convo.

Unplug? Take out batteries? Help.me out here.

Wait i missed that part. THAT WAS OFF.
Freaky!

Enough radiated power will induce a current in other wires or antennas. Just like those Solar X-Flares or a Nuclear Blast EMP will do. The Earth was hit by a bigass Solar Flare in September 1859 known as the Carrington Event that induced enough electric current surge in telegraph lines to shock telegraph operators. If we got hit by one that big today we'll all be making memes on cave walls again like our ancestors did.

Thanks for explaining it better than I ever could.

Took my future wife to see Star Wars at the Drive-In, I did.

Well, definitely appreciate ya bein around. :D

WOAH...would Raydog lose his points?

Wasn't there a huge solar flare event about 12-15 years ago around the area of New York to Canada. It suppressed all electrical power. The traffic lights were all down for the duration, but everything when back to normal when it passed.

Yes and no. There were several power outages during that time-span, affecting the US and Canada. But they weren't caused by solar flares. One was caused by a software bug, and the others were electro-mechanical, caused by terrestrial weather problems.

I like you guys who KNOW FACTS... obviously not teen age wasteland... err kids

Thank you. Of COURSE I know this stuff.....I'm as old as a dinosaur fart, and actually lived thru half this crap!

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Whopper With Cheese. Now *that's* a CB handle.

.... although, some of the music today sounds like it...

Lived into the 80's too. I had my CB handle. :-)

If this doesn't ring true, then I did something uniquely douchey as a kid.

Nope. You are correct. There were CB trolls. There was a guy that used to harass the truck drivers until I discovered he lived one street over. I threatened to give the truckers his address if he didn't shut up.

What was fantastic one night, when I was 10 -- a bunch of the "CB Guys" (these guys all had Chevy pickups with that cowlick antenna on the roof) found us, down to the specific house. I came back on the radio and shouted, "You idiots, it's 77 Hoover, not 73!" They took the bait, and a kid I didn't like got his ass beat by his father.

Bwahaha nice.

Doxxing circa 1975

We used to sit in my friend's dad's truck and play with the CB when we were kids.

"Breaker Breaker strike team two initiate your attack. Strike team 3 prepare to follow up explosives and breaching charges at the ready" - Spoken over CB radio outside of Pantex nuclear facility [Amarillo] driving in I-40.
My dad smacked the F**K out of me and floored it.

I was the Red Beaver....

Or do you? ;-)

Same here. I was a Denny's cook at the time, and my handle was Silverstone (thanks to the Silverstone non-stick egg skillets we used). I eventually graduated to an Amateur (Ham) radio license, which I keep active to this day. LOL

I love seeing some coherent conversations on here. Cheers

Hey sorry can't dm u you so had to find a spot like this. I got a notification cuz u wrote something to me but it seems it was in a subthread that no longer exists. Figured I'd let you know in case you needed a response or whatever :D